Elisheva
Elisheva was given to 97 girls in 2025, #1,983 among girls’ names; 2,459 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,420 Americans named Elisheva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elisheva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elisheva mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elisheva is “a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Elisheba.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elisheva?
#1,983 among girls’ names, 2025
Elisheva rose from #2,362 in 2015 to #1,983 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 43.7 to 60.4 per million.
97 babies in 2025, the peak
Elisheva peaked in 2025, when 97 girls were given it, #1,983 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 77 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,983 | 60.4 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,371 | 47.5 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,502 | 44.2 |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,301 | 49.4 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,793 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,177 | 51.3 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,408 | 44.1 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,719 | 37.0 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,170 | 29.5 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,623 | 37.8 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,362 | 43.7 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,446 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,638 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,839 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,643 | 38.1 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,946 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,860 | 33.2 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,930 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,028 | 30.2 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,518 | 38.4 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,601 | 22.2 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,082 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,674 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,979 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,014 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,348 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,504 | 32.1 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,661 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,710 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,910 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,033 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,548 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,892 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,486 | 27.7 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,942 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,090 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,883 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,323 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,925 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,217 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,015 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,442 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,851 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,715 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,366 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,194 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,806 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,538 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,479 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,702 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,647 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,406 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,635 | 8.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,171 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,964 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,790 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,803 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elisheva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elisheva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elisheva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elisheva, and how old are they?
2,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,459 Americans ever recorded as Elisheva. The median Elisheva alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,761 people named Elisheva (1,757 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,983 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 132 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 532 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 848 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 910 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Elisheva born?
The states with the most babies named Elisheva are New York, New Jersey and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 29 | #572 | 6.6× |
| New Jersey | 22 | #365 | 5.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,962 | 0.2× |
Where Elisheva is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elisheva is most over-represented in New York: since 1965 it was given 6.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elisheva with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elisheva
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elisheva and names like it
- Compare Elisheva and SanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElisheva peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elisheva since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Elisheva.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elisheva alive today were born 2013-2025.
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